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BATH — The Chocolate Church Arts Center has released a compilation of traditional and original Christmas songs performed by Maine-based artists, including Schooner Fare and Lauren Crosby, among many others.
A link to the compilation is available at the CCAC website, and it may be streamed for free or downloaded for $10.
The compilation includes submissions from 11 Maine artists. Schooner Fare contributed their original track “What Christmas Means to Me,” rising songwriter Lauren Crosby recorded a version of Billie Todd’s “One Christmas Eve.” Veteran songwriter and producer Peter Gallway performs “Christmas Roses” and Jud Caswell adds his own “The Long Walk Home.”
Performing traditional Christmas songs are Scott Moreau, with “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” Gerald Brann, with “The Christmas Song,” Heather Pierson with a jazzy arrangement of “We Wish You A Merry Christmas,” and CCAC Executive Director William Lederer with a country-soul version of “Silent Night.”
Other highlights are “City By the Sea,” an original song from Bath-based musician Peter Macdonald Blachly (who performs as Peter Alexander), an original song from Wiscasset singer-songwriter Kat Logan, “Christmas in this Place,” and a reading of “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” performed by actor and voice-over artist Tamara Lilly.
The Chocolate Church Arts Center hopes that the compilation can be enjoyed by patrons who, if not for the pandemic, may have attended what is usually a busy season of holiday performances.
